Sorry, we don’t do chapter breaks.

I’m going to try and format book two. I didn’t do too badly with book one, but in the end, I sent it away to be formatted for digital because I couldn’t get the damn thing to do chapter links properly. I read and re-read the Smashwords Style Guide a hundred times (well, maybe not a hundred), and no matter how hard I tried, the entire process eluded me.

Then I started thinking; why do I need chapter breaks anyway? Some people will say it makes it easier for the reader to find where they’ve left off. I say bull shit. With both the Kindle app and the e Book app I have on my laptop, if I close the applications in the middle of a book and re-open it, guess what—they both take me RIGHT BACK to the same place. Plus, there’s a little program called BOOKMARKS, that will do the exact same thing. So I’m thinking, no more chapter links for me.

Personally, a Table of Contents and links should only be in a book if you’re the type of writer who gives each chapter a name, OR, if you’re writing non-fiction. Since I do neither, I’m happy to omit the little buggers. Besides, so far, my books are rather small; six chapters.  Come on, do you really need a Table of Contents for something that small?

Now, if someone could direct me to an easy way of linking websites to the acknowledgement page, you’d be my BFF!